The growth of commodity futures markets in India has helped farmers in dismantling powerful trading cartels in commodities like potato and mentha oil apart from helping them in taking more broad-based decision on production, storage and marketing of farm produce, a study conducted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences in association with MCX showed.
The study which analyzed the contribution of commodity exchange ecosystem on economic development showed that commodity futures exchanges have facilitated a number of brokers, traders and producers, who are first generation economic beneficiaries of commodity markets and they have expanded their business with growing opportunities...............................................Full Article: Source